The Board of Audit and Inspection of Korea and its Audit of Railroad Buckling Correlated with Rising Temperatures and Climate Change
The Board of Audit and Inspection (BAI) conducted an audit of the Korea National Railway (KORAIL) to prepare it for possible buckling of railways that may be caused by intense heat waves, the fingerprint of global warming. It seemed worthwhile to share the audit methodologies employed in this audit with INTOSAI members and the public sector auditing community, notably as the methodologies utilized the scientific analysis of the correlation between temperatures of air and railroads, as well as the simulation of future temperature scenarios.